1. CYSTICERCOSIS OF THE SUPERIOR OBLIQUE MUSCLE
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Anne M. V. Brooks Mb, Robert H. West Fraco, and W. Brian Essex Mb
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Diplopia ,business.industry ,fungi ,Cysticercosis ,Histology ,Anatomy ,medicine.disease ,eye diseases ,Eyelid swelling ,Lesion ,Ophthalmology ,medicine.drug_formulation_ingredient ,Superior oblique muscle ,parasitic diseases ,Taenia solium ,medicine ,Cyst ,medicine.symptom ,business - Abstract
A 39-year-old Vietnamese refugee with upper eyelid swelling followed by vertical diplopia and mild proptosis was shown by computerised tomography to have a localised lesion in the region of the right superior oblique muscle. At operation, this was a cyst and histology confirmed the larval form of Taenia solium (cysticercosis).
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- 1983
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